Radiotherapy with beams of carbon ions

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1861-1882

  Amaldi, Ugo ^a   Kraft, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

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EID: 22544444666     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/68/8/R04     Document Type: Article

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